Warning: Fairguide.com and Expo-guide.com!

Bolzano, Italy, February 2, 2009
Please exercise caution if you receive an e-mail from the company World Business Guide (Registration WBG 2009). It consists of a service is carried our for a FEE! The company operates like Fairguide.

Bolzano, Italy, October 10, 2008 
We would like to draw your attention to the fact that another company, Expo-guide (www.expo-guide.com), operates in a manner similar to Fairguide.  For more detailed information, please see the website www.stopecg.org 
 
Bolzano, Italy, May 28, 2008 
Thanks to an agreement between Construct Data/Fairguide and the Austrian Schutzverband gegen unlauteren Wettbewerb [Association for Protection against Unfair Trade], anyone who has concluded a contract with Construct Data may now terminate it.  All companies that have been confronted by Construct Data should now contact it immediately and terminate the signed contract.  A sample letter in English may be found on the homepage of the UFI (The Global Association of the Exhibition Industry) at http://www.ufi.org/pages/thetradefairsector/fairguide.asp . For additional information, please see http://www.stopecg.it
 

WARNING! Important Notice to All Companies
FAIRGUIDE.COM – Construct Data Verlag GmbH
We would like to inform you that the company Construct Data Verlag GmbH, headquartered in Austria, has been sending offers to companies exhibiting at the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center and other tradeshow companies which concern an advertisement over the period of three years in an Internet catalog, www.fairguide.com.  In order to fill out the form, which at first glance was made to appear very attractive, the fine print demands an annual payment in the amount of 971.00 euros.  In this offer, the company Construct Data uses the names of Italian and foreign exhibition centers, their events, and the addresses of exhibiting companies.  The Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center hereby explicitly indicates that the company Construct Data Verlag GmbH was never granted permission to use this information and expressly distances itself from this procedure.  If you have received an offer or application form from the company Construct Data Verlag GmbH, we urgently recommend that you read through all of the conditions with the greatest of precision before you sign.  You may find additional information about Construct Data Verlag GmbH at the following website: http://www.stopecg.org and on the Italian website http://www.osservatorioaziende.it

Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center v. Fair Guide    
In the future, exhibitors at the numerous events of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center will remain protected against subsequent orders with Construct Data Verlag GmbH (of Vösendorf, Austria).  Upon the petition of attorney Gernot Rössler, who is the president of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center, Judge Carlo Busato of the District Court of Bolzano, in a preliminary injunction, prohibited the Austrian publishing house from advertising with the names of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center or the names of the latter’s tradeshow events for its own Internet directory “Fair Guide”.
Construct Data Verlag GmbH of Vösendorf, Austria, the publisher of the tradeshow handbook available on the Internet variously known as “Fair-Guide” or “Guida degli espositori nel Fair Guide” or “The Exhibitors’ Fair Guide” has also achieved dubious renown in South Tyrol/Alto Adige because of its disreputable advertising methods.  The trick is always the same:
companies that exhibit at one of the tradeshows in Bolzano are requested to correct their exhibitor information.  In good faith that they have to do this for their tradeshow participation in Bolzano, they are subsequently strongly urged to pay up.  The fair trade authorities in Italy have already repeatedly looked into the dubious activities of the publisher and have judged the activity of Construct Data to be misleading.  In Germany, several courts have likewise recognized the publisher's procedure to be dubious and misleading.
Upon the petition of attorney Gernot Rössler, who is the president of Fiera Bolzano S.p.A./Messe Bozen AG, Judge Carlo Busato of the District Court of Bolzano has brought an end to these pursuits and prohibited Construct Data Verlag from advertising by using the names of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center or the names of the latter’s tradeshow events, clients, or exhibitors for the tradeshow directory with the designation “Fair Guide”, “Guida degli Espositori nel Fair Guide”, or “The Exhibitors’ Fair Guide”.
This preliminary injunction carries legal force effective immediately.
In his judicial injunction, Judge Busato comes to the conclusion that “Construct Data is using the name rights of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center and its various events in an impermissible manner in order to carry out its activity to achieve profit which, in addition, is also in competition with that of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center.”  And it is doing this even though it must fully realize that it is advertising using the naming rights of others for its own activity.  This therefore consists of the “exploitation of the rights of others for its own advertising purposes, which in addition has also been classified by the Italian fair trade authorities as well as by courts in other EU countries as misleading."
The Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center requests that all exhibitors and clients immediately report any violations of this injunction.  Under no circumstances should demands for payment by Construct Data Verlag be reacted to.
Clients and exhibitors are reminded here that they have access at any time to the Internet exhibitor directory of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center which is provided free of charge and which makes it possible to update information.

Bolzano, Italy, August 10, 2007 
NEWS IN THE “FAIR GUIDE” CASE
In the legal matter of Fiera Bolzano S.p.A./Messe Bozen AG versus Construct Data Verlag AG, the appeal instance at the District Court of Bolzano upheld the preliminary injunction by Judge Carlo Busato of August 3, 2007.
With this injunction, Construct Data Verlag was prohibited from advertising by using the names of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center or the names of the tradeshow events organized by the latter, its clients, or exhibitors for the Internet directory by the name of “Fair Guide”, “Guida degli Espositori nel Fair Guide”, or “The Exhibitors Fair Guide”.
The injunction is consequently legally valid and the wheelings and dealings of FAIR GUIDE can finally be brought to a halt.  In the event that you recently received demands for payment or offers of a contract from Construct Data Verlag for the Internet directory “Fair Guide” or “Guida degli Espositori nel Fair Guide” or “The Exhibitors Fair Guide” with which you as a exhibitor of Fiera Bolzano S.p.A./Messe Bozen AG (or as a participant in the tradeshow events of the Bolzano/Bozen Exhibition Center) were requested to correct your information, please directly contact the president of the Exhibition Center, Dr. Gernot Rössler, attorney at law, who has also been representing the Exhibition Center as an attorney in this matter at his law office address in Bolzano: Sparkassenstr. 6, tel. +39-0471 976571, fax +39-0471 301446, e-mail: info@roessler.it .
Thank you very much for your cooperation.